Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 38, Number 259, 8 September 1913 — Page 8

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELcenAM, MONDAY, SEPT. 8, 1913 PALLADIUM'S MAGAZINE AND HOME PAGE '-4 si

Earlham College Professor Tells Views On Nearly Completed Panama Canal, BY D. W, DENNIS. ice factory, the laundry, the bakery,' We call the canal the "big ditch"; , the ice cream factory, etc.; it paints t one soon learns after being on the 'and repairs the houses attending to ev- j ground to speak in sections; there is ; ery detail without orde.s and on time.' a big ditch, the Culobra Cut. nine! The amusements of the men women ' miles long 300 feet wide at bottomland children are all looked after; ' as a minimum, ranging from 300 to 50 there is a Y. M. . A. in every town ' feet deep; into this big ditch its walls with a bowling alley, a billiard hall, . elide; 27 times at least this has hap-1 a gymnasium, a lecture hall, a da nopened and sonic of them are "big ' lug hall etc. The horses of the men ' slides" one of them of 7,000,000 cubic are taken care of in a government yards ol earth; covers it acres. I i corral and there is no commoner i saw one of l,000,ooo cubic, yards and ''sight on the streets than men and

I thought it was big. The waters of the Chagrcs river have been dammed back until a "big lake" has been formed. I sijuare Gatun lal-'c rovers Hit miles or will u hen it is full. To do I

this required a "big dam"; about 2 ness among (he people which 1 have miles long, tapering from a half mile ; ne.vcr sc-tt anyw hen- before, wide at Ihe bottom to 400 feet wide j a federal pny? if ian doctors every at the top, this dam is SO feet high, j one connected with tin- work ;-nd so in this d; m is a "big snilhvay." It. is ' whetlr-r as; emplcye en t'i? canM useless to give figures but it is 800 needs a beefsteak or a pill Uncle Sam feet wide and has at its base a power j is right there to give either in the holts'? "big enough" to supply all the ' nrnper manner, huh-ed the most wonneeds of a city of 73,0(u people, of a-denui thing that, lias !'e;i done here

railway 40 miles long and to open and shut 46 "big gates" in the locks, weighing 50o tons each. How I wish all my friends could see one of these units. 1 shall have when I return stereopticon sliues the best that can DR. D. W. impression of be made to help the vords. Human Side Appeals. The locks which will raise the big-i gest ships that exist 85 feet above sea level are "big" and 12 in number. But any or all of these big things do not

impress me as much as the human j strength and health, side of the "big job"; 30,000 men be- Leadership Succeeds, side women and children arc fed, We know something about what inclothed and housed comfortably, beau-' dividual initiative can do in the Unittifully, artistically even; we are en-' ed States, something about what gengaged in a great experiment in social- 1 his can do; the most profitable lesion ism almost without knowing it. which the building of the canal is Every morning from Colon a train ' likely to teach is w hat wise leadership sets out carrying bread for the day, i and loyal following can do.

butter, meat, fresh vegetables ice cream even, for all this army of people. It hands these out to supply retail houses and delivery wagons everywhere and the good work does not

stop until the kitchen door of the em-j can svell be. All of them are obedient, ployes is reached. 'the intelligent because they know the These supplies except native fruits j commands are wise, and just; the rest are shipped from the United States j mainly because they see that great and are sold for less money than they j things come of his commands, a very are in any city in the U. S.; a porter 'few obey because they must or go house steak is sold here for exactly a boa rd. half of what it costs, in Washington! Nothing is too great for us if we City. were organized like Col. Oocthals and Take notice that this is all done by j his army, the government: it owns and runs the 1 Truly P. Y. PENNIS.

MARRIED LIFE BY MABEL HERBERT URNER. "Helen, where did you put that box of the old family pictures?" "Kamily pictures?" Helen repeated aguely. "Yet. a lot of old daguerreotypes that 1 had in that canvas trunk. You cleared it out. didn't you?" "Why yes, your summer clothes are packed in that trunk now all the things that were in it I put on the top shelves of your hall closet." "Well, we'll have to look up that box. Mother telephoned me today that she's going to have a picture of grandfather enlarged, and wants the one I have an old daguerreotype taken in his uniform. 1 told her 1 thought Carrie had one which was much bet-

ter but she seems to want the one in j member where you put them? What's the uniform." 'this?" They went out to the hall closet j "Oh, maybe that's it," eagerly, and gazed up at the three closely pack-; But it wasn't. ed shelves. ! Well all the things from the lower He went into the dining room for a j shelf had been draged out and still no chair to stand on. i pictures. Warren got down from the "Wait, don't stand on it in that! chair with a muttered oath. way." warned Helen. "Let me get you "Now, what DID you do with that a paper." ; box of pictures?" he demanded angrily. THE HUNT FOR THE EPICURE. j "Oh. dear, I'm so sorry. 1 thought But he was already up on the chair, j I put everything from that trunk on "t'U not hurt it. Here, what's in this ) those shelves. green box?" 1 "Oh, you only think so now! You He turned it over. "Tennis shoes." were certain in the beginning He handed it down to her and drew HIS MOTHER ON THE 'PHONE, out another box. "Flowers for leghorn Here the telephone rang shrilly, hat." ! Helen went to answer it.

"Coral and moss," he read. "What's the use of keeping stuff like this? Pine cones, Sept. 12, 1908." he read

from another package. "Half of this this kind of weather. The pictures didn't know the gun was loaded" has cn us. This is especially trv. as retruck shall be thrown away." ; 'Why, we've just been looking for it been accepted as a handsome apology : gards women, and there isn't a rr.pther "Why. Warren, don't you remember Oh. you have! I'm so glad! You found ! for murder in innumerable cases. To and wife, and housekeeper in the land we gathered those the year before we the whole box? Why Warren was j say we "didn't think'" the rest of us who doesn't know ihkt it is because were married, and I said I'd keep sure he had them in "the canvas trunk regard as a blanket excuse that w e h r family don't think that she must them in memory of that day. Don't, Oh, I see: then he left them there, ; can stretch over all the lesser crimes slave at a r.eve r-ending job. that has you remember that WONDERFUL I when we were married? He didn't j in the calendar. We work it for all no let-up from year's end to veer s

day the twelfth of September! the

day you first told me you cared?"

women, employes on horseback after 3 o'clock. Covernnieiit launches carrv pleas-

ure parties to Kt. Lonnzo. Naos Island, Ta boga and els'-w! yre : the result of all this h intf'titment and happiis not the building of the canal, but the total eradication of th bubonic plague and yellow fever the ijuarai'tining of leprosv and the amelioration of Malaria, and all other forms of disease. DENNIS. ! The details cannot be given in a brief letter but when a patient in the splendid hospitals reaches convalescence he is put aboard ships and sent to an island sanitarium where flea or fly or mosquito is unknown and where cool sea breezes coax him back to Colonel Goethals has about 5,000 'very intelligent helpers: perhaps he has nearly as many more who have average intelligence; the other 40.000 or a few less are as ignorant as men SECOND YEAR "Urn-tim. Well I can't see why that's i any reason for keeping a lot of rubbish. Now ARK those pictures up here or NOT? 'Why. dear, they Ml" ST be there if they were in that canvas trunk. I ; put everything up there." : He pulled out another box. "'What's this? It's not marked. It feels heavy ; too. Open it and see." ' Helen broke the string and opened it only to find an old box of water colors. ; "Now as a matter of fact have you any IPKA where those pictures are?" 'Why, dear, they SHOULD be up there. I packed all those things away so carefully." "Then whv on earth don't vou re"Hello Oh. Mrs. Curtis Why, yes. I'm very well . The baby has a slight cold, but you have to expect that with bring them with him at all? Oh, no it hasn't been any trouble. 'm only!

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These pictures represent the latest fs, fancies and freaks of th. Paris imagiation run riot. Every one is just enough verdone to be imposs'ble or the woman of refined joci taste and yet a little ess over-ornamentation i n d over- accentuation might easily remove them from the freak class to the smart and chic order, thereby making them possible even in Richmond. The first figure is an outgrowth of the lampshade overskirt; from a hip yoke that ends in a broad tuck there are two six-inch accordion plaitings that stand, out about the knee like a ( ! 'Vf. starched petticoats. Narrow black moire ribbon starts under the Eton collar and ties in with the front bow of the girdle sash.

p.iad you've found them Yes, he's en was up on the chair trying to right here. Do you want to speak to straighten the thinas he had so dishim ?" ' ordered. Still holding the receiver, Helen j "Here, get down." gruffly; "HI do called to Warren, "Your mother wish- ; that." es to speak to you." j And that was all. He :i;ade no apolHc came up and took the receiver j ogles, no excuses. He never did And

from her. When he went back to the hall Hel-

CRIMINAL CARELESSNESS

By DOROTHY DIX. v GREAT many of us and we are not hard-hearted people either read with delight the other day of a judge who had the courage to sentence a man to eight years in the penitentiary for accidentally killing his friend. It is about time that somebody called a halt not only on the fool who fools with a gun, but on the other criminally careless individuals who go on their devasting way through the world. breaking j Vo.r. . i rnininff V. f TV1 d t: 1TH TK"tO ... . . . a think they have sufficiently atoned for the harm they do by saying they didn't intend it. In all the length and breadth of contradictorv human nature there is nothj ing stranger than that we should take j this overly charitable view of carelessness. The simple testimony that "he that it is worth, yet in reality it is a plea for pardon that nobody but an

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Figure 2 has a "weskit coatee and under panel in the slit skirt developed in flowered chintz. The little vest and undersleeves of mousseline add a dainty touch to a costume that becomes too daringly large Helen, too, said nothing. She hitd learned that was far the wisest wav. i idiot is justified in puttir.c f'-rth ,;. his own behalf. A PARALLEL. What reason that anybody ought "o be expected to accept, can an intelligent human being give for not thinkiir.g? It always reminds me of a colored philosopher I once knew who meted out a stern justice to her offspring, and who was particularly severe on

i them when they dared to offer the ex- please a husband who accepts her J There are also the criminally care- '; cuse. "I didn't think, ' by way of a labor w ithout thanks, who passes over : less people who terrorise society with

panacea for their shortcomings, i Didn't think, didn't think.' she would exclaim, wrathfuily, Whuts de eood ,. .,." in havin' a thinker ef you don't wuk it?" So say we all. brethren and sisters what's the tise? To take the matter up in its most practical aspect is to recognize tht fact that it is other people's careless ness that lays our heaviest burdens upend. Even more to bt deplored than this

PARIS STYLES THAT WOULD CAUSE A RIOT ON MAIN STREET.

through the suggestive line and arrangement of the underskirt. The girl of Figure 3. with her broad caped military coat caught loosely about her. wears one of the new Spanish sailors tip;s the lack of thou,ht we show in our otiouct to those of our own househoM and whose happiness or misery !ifS in our hands. I often think that when the j;reat judgment day comes tor ;k.i of us, and we must answer 1 the lit ens done in the flesh, we s.hi.11 nor be so appulled by the one or two great wrongs we may have coir n;tt' as bv the thousand littlecarelessness that ;m ; oi ( l'iniira! darker, our past. THE SADDEST SIGHT. What, lor in-tan- e, are those husbands goira- to say who took the jewel of a won-.an's happiness in their k. ' pinu and ih- n v. ere so careless that th threw- it away? The world is i-iii e.f heart -hrncry wives, who are sti-rvinc if r a little appreciation, a little love, a i:ttle praise. We don't rerocrnze it as a tragedy, because we are too familiar with it; but there is real! sight sadder than that of the no woman who spends her life trying to her achievements without commend?Hon, and w ho growls and grumbles over everv mistake. . . Another nlace where we desire to

do time for our criminal carelessness lender spot in your soul they put their is in the way we talk before servants. ; finger right on it. Let an old maid be We discuss the most intimate matters present and they get funny on the subbefore them We hazard gtiesses at ject of women who are trying to marpeople's motives. We repeat rumors ry. Is there a divorced person in the of intrigues. We talk as if the maid company, wild horses couldn't draw

who was waiting behind our chair were deaf as the adder of the Scripturs sri duaib as a coffin nail, inr.id of heir.g an eloneated tar and a Ikinc machine? combined. Then, a hen a distorted and earbled report o". forth of some family happening 'we wonder how on earth it ot out. Perhaps it is not far short of the truth to say that we are all the

tilted a bit too much. But for the woman of clear-cut features and sense enough to wear her hat on her head instead of her right ear, the Spanish sailor offers a very attractive solution of the outing hat problem. Figure 4 wears one of the very objectionable new "Botticelli" figure dresses. It is of white net heavily embroidered, in Colbert work and made over a charmeuse foundation. Both skrt and waist-line are slightly elevated in front, and the result is the new slouch figure on exaggreated lines. The wide girdle of cherry satin widens at one side to meet the Vneck with cross set rows of tulle, as a finish at the throat. OLIVETTE.

authors of our own scandals, and that our own servants are the disseminators. They get a word here and there. and put their own interpretation on it, and the result is that reputations are ruined. Mr. and Mrs. X. discuss family finances at the table, and Mr. X. re marks that they can't afford so and so. Listening Mary Jane, bringing in . the dinner, picks up a few sentences, and by the time she has confided what sh thought she heard to Mrs. Jones' cook, and she has passed it on to Mrs. Brown's nurse, aJl the world is a'.vare of a rumor that the X.'s are toppling on the verge of bankruptcy and can't pay their servants. We despise the base rumor we call kitchen gossip, but we listed to it. It makes and mars characters, and the pity of the thing is that it is our own criminal carelessness that lays its foundations. i ANOTHER SORT. the malapropos remarks. A forbidden subject draws them on to their doom as surely and irresistibly as the magnet attracts the needle. If there is a them away from a discussion of martial unhappiness. Has somebody a son who is a black sheep and who has brouerht shame and sorrow on his family, they discourse on forgery and betrayed trusts and prisons. Of course, these people always excuse themselves by saying they didn't think. It should never be accepted, ; People who haven't enough brains to

A TALK TO THE ENGAGED GIRL

By BEATRICE FAIRFAX. .t i ? v W -j HAT shall tfrl my ha s:-. levenrs ma; tb6 jr.ent ring? " Weil. now. what do yo' think of a Question like that? Who gave you the r'.r.c. little sister, and what did you think when he gav it to you? Io you lorfctm. were you happy you could arcoly brathe? -Well, then, why didn't xou fay so. -.:ul bo done with It? ? I What rhtll von say. ho shall ou act: i. this proper, is ih.it riht? The heart is the best judse when it conies to thin:? like this What hao you done to your heart frozen it up solid, reading a lot of stuff about what i. "the proper thing" and "what isn't .lone." and who ought to speak firs' and who must never, r.evrr say a word thutsh the whole world he hanging ::i the balance? Ktiquette wha .queue is there about heme encaged? What do you think you'll do when you come to die ask some one to read en etiquette book to tell you how to shut your eyes and bid farewell to this vain world? When they put your first baby in your arms, how in the world will you know how to act unless some Mrs. Grundy is there to tell you? What! Shocking! Oh. yes. of . course, babies are dreadfully shocking, aren't they, and so is life and so is death and so Is love and so are Iota i and lots of things, but they are real IJuit the same. And so. why don't you m-.et them like a real woman and not like some Utile, painted, jointed doll that has to wait till you pinch her ! cen to say "Mama" or "Papa" In her souenkv little artificial voice. What must you say when he gWea you the ring, dear heart, what must I you say. when he's sick and wants j you to hold his hand and make him I sr nothing good to eat and pull down j th shade and make the room comfy . and read him slmething to send him to sleep. I What must you say when you and I he stay up all night w atching for the dawn to tell you whether she's going to live or not? the little girl you both love so dearly. What must you do when somebody tries to take him away from you and your heart Is breaking and you don't really know whether he cares or not? What are you. little sister, anyhow; a girl a real live girl or Just a make bilieve. cut-out of some fashion paper w ith bcth of feet that couldn't walk an honest step to save anybody! life and tiny hands that couldn't put a biscuit into shape if the fate of a nation depended on it? What must you say? why. say what you think, say what you feel, say what you mean and stop thinking about It, that's all. think have no business In society. They should be locked up in asylums for the feeble-minded until they learn enough intelligence to keep them frotn

wounding other people by their, ' - . gerons conversation. , . ; For my part. I would prt' r s killed by the clean stiletto u!) .an , enemy to bekig kicked to death by.aV donkey, and I would just aa soon have my feelings hurt, or my vanity wounded by an intentional unkindness aa by the blundering stupidity of the criminally careless who never think.

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